skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For whatever it’s worth, in response to the same question posed by me (“what is the ld50 of caffeine”), Google’s AI properly reported it as 150-200 mg/kg.

I asked this about 1 minute after you posted your comment. Perhaps it learned of and corrected its mistake in that short span of time, perhaps it reports differently on every occasion, or perhaps it thought you were a rat :)
At the risk of doxxing myself I very intentionally left it in vague. Lets say an urban area in the US west :)
I don't understand why do you think so, more cheaper inventory on the market will move things in exactly opposite direction to what you described.
Recommendations and playlists.

Spotify isn't primarily about playing music for me, it's about finding new music to play.

And Spotify's just where all of that is. The quality of the radio recommendations, the fact that there's always a playlist for every TV show soundtrack, that artists put together their own playlists, the quality and variety of playlists overall, and it's where cool people I know create and update their public playlists.

None of the other services seem to come close in terms of that. I see links to Spotify playlists all over the internet. I don't think I've ever seen a link to a YouTube Music playlist?
> I’ve never seen an ORM used in the wild where you could actually avoid thinking about tables and columns and rows pretty frequently.

There is a compelling argument that absent the n+1 problem, it could be a leak-free abstraction. And, in practice, SQLite doesn't suffer from the n+1 problem... But that is definitely true in a lot of cases, particularly where the n+1 problem is unavoidable.

> If it’s a one-off you’re essentially writing a bespoke shorthand wrapper for some custom SQL.

While the original comment also conflated query building and ORM, I am not sure that we should. The intersection of query building and ORM was historically referred to as the active record pattern. I suspect the ActiveRecord library, from Rails, calling itself an ORM is where things started to become confused. Regardless, whatever you want to call the data mapping and query building, they are undeniably distinct operations.

It may be fair to say that query builders are no more than an indirection. That said, I posit that they only exist as an abstraction to model composability on top of SQL. If SQL naturally composed through basic string concatenation, I expect the use of query builders would quickly disappear.
I'm just an armchair nerd, no expert, so I welcome corrections. Going only by Wikipedia, it's a fragmentation warhead probably designed to explode in proximity to the target.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsir_missile_system

20kg of explosive is a lot of hurt. But, depending on where the missile is in relation to the plane, only a small amount of that kinetic force may be transferred to the target. At best, 50% if it's directly beside the target? And at some point it's just kind of a dice roll whether those fragments hit anything vital, sever fuel and hydraulics, etc. From a military standpoint an air to air missile really only needs to damage a target. Any damage at all is going to remove a target from the fight and that airframe will not fly again for a long time if ever.

I will stress again my lack of anything other than armchair knowledge!
British TV had Space 1999

Not be confused with Spaced (1999) :)
Atheism is the position that God does not exist. An atheist is someone who therefore says “I believe that there is no God.”

It is not a mere lack of belief, as agnostics can be said to lack belief in God as well. People who are simply ignorant of God also lack a proper belief in God, but this is not atheism, only ignorance. They simply have not come to terms with the subject and therefore have no position on the matter. An atheist does, however unsophisticated it may be.

This view that atheism is simply a lack of belief in God is common among the intellectually challenged New Atheist crowd and would have been ridiculous to the much more intellectually substantive atheists of old, like Neitzsche (who, btw, while an atheist, found it a horrifying thing; the other classic atheists could be described as world-weary rather than insipid, parochial, middle class triumphant).
That's when it became mandatory on all vehicles, not when the first vehicle to satisfy the standard became available on the market.

As another example, side impact airbags have been mandatory in the US since 2013, but the Volvo 850 had them in 1995 and they were present on something like half of new cars a decade before they were mandatory and >97% of new cars three years before the mandate.
This is a good point, but part of what the article is saying is that where housing is cheap, some of even those "at the margins of society" people with some drug problems can maybe stay housed. Which means fixing the drug part of their problems is easier than if they're moving around on the streets.
Yeah, the homeless pool would automatically prune every year. Giving people also the incentive to be not homeless.
I think incentives are different on an individual level. Yes, if everyone built more housing then your property's value would not go up as much. But if a single individual builds housing that's very profitable, that'll way more than offset the tiny reduction to the values of that individual's other properties.

It's like a prisoner's dilemma where property owners as a class may not want more housing so that they are wealthier on paper, but any individual property owner will want to build housing because that'll grow their wealth faster.
Man, there's few things as infuriating as the Spotify app refusing to play a downloaded podcast unless i connect to the internet. can disconnect right after it starts playing, so it makes no sense.
No, ChatGPT has had a web search tool for paid users forever. It actually searches the web and you can click on the links
Land value taxes alone don’t do crap. You need a high enough tax burden to compel people to change, and those levels are extremely unpopular.
> There used to be a similar service between Toronto and Montreal (both directions), where the train would pause for several hours midway so passengers would arrive at around 7:30 a.m. well-rested.

That trip is 1h 15m by air with 30 flights a day each way. That train doesn't exist anymore because it's impractical and people's time is valuable. We stopped taking Conestoga wagons from New York to California for the same reason.
I just posted some historical info about Chuck Moore's work for HOMER and Associates on a real time visual mixing console that produced many music videos that ran endlessly on MTV back when they actually played music videos, and special effects for blockbuster films like RoboCop and Total Recall to the discussion about abstractions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42532404
Amazing how we still don't know who blew up nordstream 2 though.
Nowadays, the package management can also be easily done with CLI:

dotnet add package GxHash
dotnet remove package ...
I also got similar and just tried, we are posting within minutes.

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The median lethal dose (LD50) of caffeine in humans is estimated to be 150–200 milligrams per kilogram of body mass. However, the lethal dose can vary depending on a person's sensitivity to caffeine, and can be as low as 57 milligrams per kilogram.
Route of administration
LD50
Oral
367.7 mg/kg bw
Dermal
2000 mg/kg bw
Inhalation
LC50 combined: ca. 4.94 mg/L
The FDA estimates that toxic effects, such as seizures, can occur after consuming around 1,200 milligrams of caffeine.

There was a table in the middle there.
Do you pay for ChatGPT? The paid version of ChatGPT has had a web search tool for ages. It will search the web and give you live links.
Presumably, because no other method than ads or affiliate links works...
Did you not read that part of the article where he discusses that very concept with actual data to back it up?

New York has higher rates of homelessness than West Virginia.

The part of Oregon where I live has a pretty extreme climate, and has way too much homelessness.

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/or/bend - this is not a climate people move to because it's comfortable and easy like Los Angeles.
Do you think people choose homelessness because it's insufficiently dangerous?
This is also my take on this. IMHO, LLMs + theorem provers have the potential to make formal methods cheap enough to use more widely.

And we should give more credit to the theorem prover part of the equation, which comes in part from old AI symbolic efforts.
You're implying you have a conscience but your first thought is that the affordable housing shortage is aggravated by nebulous "illegal" immigrants rather than profit-seeking corporations?
my feeling is that we could support more people
at a much higher level of comfort and wellbieng
with a small fraction of the resourses used today

that is not implimentable, one because there is no clearplace to start , and that most people are bastards in one way or another, you, me, the other bastard, just that little bit untrusting, looking for advantage, dreaming of our indivual ambitions,
and by times hungry, bored, mean, bastards, who only get worse if there is pressure to be all saintly and save the world, cause you know, it would be fine to go ahead and save the world and shit, but they want you to be all fucking polite about it, WHILE ,you do it
Copilot is available on Emacs, but yes, a lot less polished.
A library is similar to search engine - it can't have (display) all possible items (results), so there is also a bias for selection.

It's not easy for a truly creative, new and unique content to get into your local library.
How does that change things?

Start talking to CTOs if you want adoption.

If you want feedback, target software developers instead.
I couldn’t remember the phrase “oral history” and Google was terrible at figuring out what I wanted to search for, but ChatGpt got it for me after a few back and forths.
These buildings have been vacant for years and a few of them are on the market for an absurd price. I don't think they have ill intent. I'm sure in their mind what could be ill intentioned about waiting for someone to pay them the right price? Doesn't mean there aren't very real consequences for letting these buildings sit empty.
Either I’m monetizing my site and I care about traffic or why else would I care if people visit my site as long as information gets out there?
I consider Youtube negative value. It is a service explicitly designed to suck up as much as possible of my time / attention, and youtube doesn't change how their algorithm works just because you pay for it with real money. The watchtime maximizing works the exact same time as at the very least all the content produced withing the ecosystem still needs to be watchtime maximizing.

Why would I ever pay for that?

Edit-to-add: Not to mention that I have yet to forgive google for killing Play Music, a much superior service.
Lowering birth rates is a good thing though
Honestly, this is a typical generic one where may be you just edited the pargraph a bit about "Your job description emphasizes the importance of..". I would rather have you give me concrete examples. Instead of saying "I have consistently evaluated user feedback to..", give me an actual example.

Also, a bit too long. Make it shorter.
Chicago, Milkwaukee, Boston all have major visible populations of street-living homeless people. I feel like this is a myth west coasters believe or something. I don't see how you could have spent time in a cold city and think it's true.
Yes it did. Rereading and reediting snafu.
Yeah, it's fascinating to me. In casual discussions (the only kind I am qualified to have) I just refer to it all generically as "shrapnel" but as you say it's more nuanced in practice.

For casual discussions it's IMO generally sufficient to just call it all shrapnel, to differentiate between reality and the Hollywood images of missiles slamming directly into planes and making big fiery explosions.
Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes "2" into my stack? (2016)
What I was taught is this is just the labor of being critical, or just "having a critical mind about things." I can maybe see how it is exhausting, but I am not sure I understand the implication that it could be better or different. If it is particularly exhausting to you, it is perfectly fine to suspend your judgement about certain things!
> Still use emacs + org mode for notes though,

Sounds like you didn't switch, but rather added another tool in your toolbox.

The constant comparisons to VSCode frustrate me because they're often presented as "either-or".

I use Emacs. And I use VSCode.
I missed the part where GP said they worked solo.

Can you share some of your prompts for the topics you listed? Asking about it straightforwardly doesn't get very far.
Any update? Hoping for the best for you, sounds like a horrible situation.
Oh we know, but we are forced to pretend something else.
Hmm my search returns “between 150 to 200 mg per kilogram”, which is maybe more correct?

Also, in what context is this dangerous? To reach dangerous levels one would have to drink well over 100 cups of coffee in a sitting, something remarkably hard to do.
Not Just Another DEI Panel [video]
They are also wrong just slightly too often. After the fifth time I was twenty minutes in to trying to use command line options that just don’t exist before realizing that I was being led down the winding path by an ai hallucination that I mistook for a stack overflow quote, I broke and paid for Kagi. Which then immediately added an AI drek feature, fml.
One of the rockets (57E6) has a thermal sensor but, also has radar and optical. Hypothetically it could have either hit the target early which was hitting the wing) and missed the tail end of the target or was homing for the heat source which would have been either aircraft engine and probably hit the one closest.

Note this is only going from the Wikipedia page and looking at the armament section.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsir_missile_system
That's super interesting. I did not know that! Thank you!
I was trying to explain this to my wife the other day. She was complaining that I had all these clothes on the floor in the bedroom and that she couldn't get out of bed easily because it was so messy (because I efficiently store some electronics under the clothes) but I explained that most of the house was still empty, especially by volume (since the air above the clothes is completely unoccupied). Fortunately, because I am rational and have data on my side, she relented as she usually does.
If I care about my “personal brand”, what are the chances that people are going to find me organically on the web?

If I want to get my name our there - which I don’t - I’m going to post to LinkedIn, give in person talks at conferences, try to get on popular podcasts that have guests, etc.
Here’s a better article, linked to by this post:

https://www.euronews.com/2024/12/26/exclusive-preliminary-in...
Sony's Crunchyroll finds its early lead in anime under attack
What's left? Defending it all, of course.
Yeah, so that's what radio is for (including in recorded form, aka podcasts).

Making video (more complicated than "talking heads") so nobody watches it is such a waste... (so is non peer to peer mass streaming, come to think of it).
> I can search for an answer to a question and, instead of getting annoying ads and SEO-optimized uselessness, I actually get an answer.

You get the average of the seo optimized answers
Is there any rule of thumb for small language models vs large language models? I've seen phi 4 called a small language model but with 14 billion parameters, it's larger than some large language models.
2024: The Year of Valkey
How rich am I? (global calculator)
These results already account for different cost of living using Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
You may as well call me a Hubbardphobe for not accepting the nonsense of body thetans and telepathic exorcism. Most people don't believe what you believe.

I don't agree that Musk is a racist. But I do agree with you about the censorship. All his talk of turning Twitter into a free speech platform was a load of hot air, like much of what he says.
Brave Search might be a good alternative.

It's index is created by people surfing with the Brave browser, so only websites used by real people are included.
The idea that someone can be without “religion” is very odd. The word “religion” is generally worthless as used, as for most people, this is merely some vague sense of what was called “religion” in their particular experience. But a coherent common characteristic, as it were, is that it is a worldview with a highest good. Everyone has some kind of worldview and some notion of a hierarchy of goods, usually something absorbed from their environment.

So it is pointless to speak of whether you are “religious”. It makes more sense to ask how you are religious. It is far more interesting to discuss the merits of your religion or other religions than to go around pretending you don’t have one.
> Is it so hard to understand that a computer operates on a giant array of bytes?

Beginner programming languages universally (since BASIC and Pascal) were designed to hide this fact. There's nothing in a beginning Python course that explains the true nature of computers. You learn about syntax, semantics, namespaces, data structures and libraries. But there's nothing that says, "a computer is endlessly incrementing a counter and executing what it finds where the counter points". And this is probably partly because of "go-to considered harmful", which posited that a lack of control flow (which is a fundamental fact of how computers actually work) is harmful to reasoning about programs.

It's probably objectively true. But a lack of go-to also restricts people from seeing the fundamental truth of the indistinguishable nature of data and instructions in the Von Neumann architecture. Which may also make it difficult to explain GPU computing to students (because it must be understood by contrasting it with Von Neumann architecture).
Compared to 0% of relevant results in first 10 pages it's an enormous improvement.
Because the representation is a ragged tree. If it were a uniform depth it would look like a blob, but because different arms have different lengths those create structure in the layout algorithm.
Real time updates of Russo-Ukraine war with nice UI/UX
Can you provide sources for the Big Oil conspiracy you cite? Because nationwide high speed rail isn't as easy - or practical - as you think. California hadn't been able to build a train a fraction of that distance without delays and squandering massive amounts of money.

The PNW has been unable to build it from Portland to Vancouver.

The US is many times larger than any European country or Japan. There are US states similar in size to EU countries with comparable rail networks.

The US literally invented air travel, which made traveling long distances by train largely obsolete.

Aircraft aren't limited to where they can go by rails.

So please explain with all these concrete examples of failure how it's a corporate conspiracy and not general purpose government ineptitude?
Even without using LLMs, Duckduckgo is good at providing little widgets that just give you a straight answer. Try searching "150 usd to eur" or "Weather Philadelphia".
Boy, the transphobic bigots like you always crawl out from under their rocks as if on cue whenever there's a chance to suck up to Elon Musk and lick his boots.
people used to raise 10+ kids to work on the farm
100%, Vienna would be my other example of how to do it right.

The US 'attempt' to do public housing is like your child, being told to wash the dishes, simply smashes all the dishes and says that this chore is impossible because look, all the dishes got broken. Meanwhile the kids next door have built an entire dishwashing machine in the time your child spent complaining it wasn't possible.
That's not new, it's always been the case.
Eh, this is just a cynical excuse to not try.

Here in Oregon, we're making some progress on housing reform. The mayor of my city attended the YIMBYTown conference a few years back when she was a city councilor. Heck, the now-governor of Oregon, Tina Kotek, spoke at it, and continues to work on housing policy.

Part of the puzzle is that reforms are better at the state level, where it's easier to say "yeah, we have a housing crisis, and these things will fix it" and you're not confronted by a local angry mob of NIMBYs intent on stopping homes from being built.
Elon told people to "go fk yourself in the face" over H-1B. Doesn't seem very nuanced to me.
People don't talk about this much, but much of Play Music lives on in Youtube Music. I am not sure if its because I was grandmothered in or something, but all my mp3s that are definitely not otherwise on YouTube still shockingly exist in my Youtube Music "Library".
8hours without counting for delays and missed connections, something that the SNCF routinely experiences.
Privatization has little to do with it in German. 'Die Bahn' is 100% public.

We should actually identify the actual technical problems and focus on spending the money to fix them.
Could you explain more? Are the results better, or are there other features?
Why? The underlying business model of "being a middleman and take a 30% cut" seems pretty solid. Is it because nobody would be musicians? This almost sounds like "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded". If nobody wants to produce music because the ROI is too low, then some musicians will drop out, and the ROI for the remaining musicians will go up because there's less competition. The only way this will fail is if people aren't willing to pay any amount for music, but that seems unlikely.
To house people who can’t pay? That’s the governments job, and they care more about fighter jets. Sorry.
I certainly agree with Yawrehto that you're a transphobic bigot. Whitewashing and carrying the water for Musk's public child abuse and malicious parenting, as well as his well documented racism, just goes to show what kind of a sociopath you and Musk really are.

But thanks for serving a purpose of the shining example and incontrovertible proof of exactly what kind of ignorant hateful pathetic people Musk fan-boys really are. You've perfectly and unwittingly illustrated and validated both my point and Yawrehto's point. Thanks for playing.
It took a while to confirm they’d used them and Obama made the mistake of asking Congress for authorisation to take out their chemical sites. Mitch McConnell blocked that, which is where Republican opposition to bombing Syria for having or using chemical weapons started.

Until they were in power of course, and Assad mistakenly assumed the Republican position on this was coherent and actually used chemical weapons again.
Hey, if you're for degrowth, demetallization, and not just defossilfuelization/depolymerization is the way to go.

Basically, replace most electricity with photonics, the rest with ionics. We have efficient ion-flow based computing and flying machines, don't we? (Birds & brains)

As for how to revamp the rest of the "irreplaceable" material culture not based on photosynthesis: What's in it for me to talk to you about this :)? How many years further have you seen than Grothendieck, since Fuller was not so visionary after all? (Including, how to fund actionable, scalable stuff, that's 30 years give or take 5)

(Note that there are siliceous, if not entirely silicon-based, lifeforms on earth. Diatoms, molluscs, etc, perhaps a significant amount of our low-end chips already come from them, through seasand? :)
Agreed, I actually prefer the Google page in the example screenshots. And in my experience Google still returns much much faster than GPT Search.

I'm open to the suggestion that OpenAI can disrupt Google, but this was a weird case to highlight.